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Supreme Court on School Choice: Fifty Years of
Precedents

Updated Nov. 23, 1998 12:14 a.m. ET

By Jay P. Lefkowitz, a Washington attorney who argued the Milwaukee case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

T he Supreme Court's decision not to review the landmark Wisconsin school choice case removed the last potential obstacle to Wisconsin's education-voucher program. Milwaukee is now the only school district in the nation where low-income families are guaranteed the opportunity to use public funds to send their children to...